A song for every person you meet (China)

The other day, I met a Diane. I had “Oh Diane” (by Fleetwood Mac) on my iPod and I played it for her. Diane had never heard that song. It amused her. Happened again with Angie when I got her to listen to Rolling Stone’s Angie. With the iPod you have music for every occasion and a song for every girl.

My first MP3 player was a Creative Nomad. The bug with Nomad was the memory and transfer speed. Over USB, one had to wait for several minutes to transfer a song. 64 MB could hold about 10 songs. And when 10 songs are the max. you can hold on to, after a few days, you do not want to listen to those songs ever again.

Next, I used an iPaq to play music. On the PDA, it’s the battery that drains real fast while playing music. Here I am using a Solar charger to charge the iPaq at BitaHai in Yunnan, China. I was also busy keeping an eye on the curious Yak that wanted to make lunch out of the iPaq.

As usual, it is Apple that comes up with the most elegant solution - the iPod with 5 GB memory (about 1000 songs), 10 hours of battery life and super fast firewire connection.

2006 Update: remembered the post while looking for a song about rain.